Lecture Series with Prof. Charles Wilson

Für das WS 2016/17 wird Prof. Charles Wilson als Obama Fellow am Institute for Transnational American Studies mit einer Vortragsreihe zu Gast sein. Folgende Vorträge sind im Rahmen verschiedener Lehrveranstaltungen und für die Dietz Lecture am 24.11.2016 geplant:

22.11.2016, 10-12 Uhr Raum P 205, Philosophicum: “The South in the Obama Era”

22.11.2016, 16-18 Uhr Raum 04-432, SB II: “Creativity in the American South: Literature and Music”

24.11.2016, 10 (s.t.)-12 Uhr Raum 03-150, Dekanatssaal Rewi: “Donald Trump’s South (Dietz Lecture)”

29.11.2016, 18-20 Uhr Raum 01-611, Georg Forster-Gebäude: “The Southern Way of Life: An Evolving Ideology”

01.12.2016, 14-16 Uhr Raum P 15, Philosophicum: “Religion in the Civil Rights South”

Im Anschluss an die Dietz Lecture am 24.11.16, die im Dekanatssaal des ReWi stattfinden wird, wird der Obama Dissertationspreis sowie der Hans Galinsky-Preis an 1-2 Studierende für herausragende Hausarbeiten vergeben werden. Hierzu sind Sie alle herzlich eingeladen.

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Lecture and workshop with Prof. em. Arthur Frank

Public Lecture by Prof. em. Arthur Frank

Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative Fallibility”

On Monday, November 7, 12 am (Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin)

Prof. Frank will give a public lecture on “Selves, Their Guidance System, and Narrative Fallibility”. In discussing Charles Dickens Great Expectations, Prof. Frank will demonstrate the importance of literature to medicine, ethics, and therapy. For more information on his talk, follow this link:https://www.grk.lifesciences-lifewriting.uni-mainz.de/news-and-announcements-2/

Workshop by Prof. em. Arthur Frank

Introduction to Narrative Ethics

On Tuesday, November 8, 12-14 pm (Philosophikum, P 201).

Prof. Frank will hold a workshop, more specifically an “Introduction to Narrative Ethics”. If you cannot join us on Monday, we warmly invite you to participate in this smaller and more intimate workshop.

Lecture with Prof. G. Thomas Couser on 18 October 2016: “Vulnerable Subjects: Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing”

Lecture with Prof. G. Thomas Couser

Hofstra University, New York

Vulnerable Subjects: Illness, Disability, and Ethical Life Writing

18 October 2016
4 pm (16 Uhr)
Georg Forster-Gebäude, Raum 01-611
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

About G. Thomas Couser:
He is the author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin, 1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004), Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (Michigan, 2009), Memoir: An Introduction, (Oxford University Press, 2011).
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